Fastly vs. Cloudflare Comparison

Raj Maurya30/12/2017

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Fastly

Fastly, which was founded in 2011, has grown into a mature content delivery network (CDN) company. Fastly provides a variety of services, including streaming media delivery and private CDN, but the company is most recognised for being a’real-time CDN,’ which means that changes are reflected immediately and the platform is capable of delivering ‘uncacheable’ content.

A few of Fastly’s most notable features are content delivery and image optimisation for dynamic assets, the cache for unpredictably changing content, and images from the edge; video streaming across multiple devices and platforms; load balancing with application auto-scaling; and cloud security, including instant traffic reports and attach mitigation.

The pricing structure is straightforward and simple to grasp, with a monthly minimum payment of $50, while bandwidth is charged at a variable cost that varies according to location. Users can use the pricing estimator to figure out how much their monthly bill will be. Fastly’s servers come equipped with 24TB of solid-state storage, 768GB of RAM, and four 25-gigabit Ethernet ports on each side.

Cloudflare

Cloudflare is a worldwide content delivery network (CDN) that offers unparalleled performance capabilities while also placing a significant emphasis on security. With a worldwide infrastructure constructed from the bottom up utilising only next-generation high-performance technology and no obsolete software or hardware, the company is able to provide its customers unprecedented levels of service. Ultimately, this results in a CDN that is simple to set up, reasonably priced, and built to continuously adapt and integrate developing technologies in order to fulfil the needs of everyone’s Internet properties in the future.

It is a successful mix of network security and performance solution that boosts the speed of websites or networks while also protecting websites, mobile applications (APIs), and SaaS services (Software as a Service). It is one of the most prominent Content Delivery Networks available on the market today.

This content delivery network (CDN) solution accelerates and improves the performance of networks, websites, apps, and APIs. It functions as a network of proxy servers and data centres (there are more than 100 of them) placed all over the world, and it serves more than 10 trillion requests each month through this network. The service has the capability of managing 10Tbps of bandwidth for its subscribers.

When it comes to website security, the most important thing to consider is protection against SQL injection, which is an attack on the website’s code. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) assaults, which are becoming increasingly common due to the exploitation of unsecured Internet-of-Things devices, are also protected. Because of these downtimes, the average hourly cost can reach as high as $100,000 per hour.